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Ongoing: 267 exhibitions, runs & attractions ↓

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Laurent Filipe celebrates the 100th anniversary of Miles Davis in a free concert in Estoril

Academia de Artes do Estoril Av. Acácias 2 Cascais

Free Live music

Marking the centenary of Miles Davis's birth, Laurent Filipe presents a narrated concert at the Auditório Carlos Avilez, joined by Mário Delgado, Alexandre Frazão, Massimo Cavalli and Pedro Lopes. The Portuguese trumpeter revisits decisive moments of Davis's career and shows how he crossed and helped transform successive phases of modern jazz.

Máximo brings PANGEA to B.Leza, a trio project where jazz, voice and electronica meet in a musical reflection on the climate crisis, with Joppe van Noten on drums and Jan Honnef on bass. Live, the album's five tracks are expanded through improvisation, adding solo piano, spoken word, synthesizers and pre-recorded material.

October 2026

Polo Cultural Gaivotas Misericórdia Lisbon

Free Other

Free access to several rooms — dance, music, theatre, multipurpose and training — with free entry.

Pure Madness

Teatro Maria Matos Alvalade Lisbon

M/12 Theatre

A theatre show bearing the evocative title “Pure Madness”.

outubro / october 2026

Residências Artísticas Lisbon

Free Other

Free event in October 2026, with free entry to various spaces in Boavista and Monsanto.

Morning 3 events
COLLECTION, DONATION | GUIDED TOUR FOUNDATIONS AND DONORS DAY

11:30 Museu do Oriente. Lisbon

Free Other

A guided tour of the Fundação Oriente museum, part of Foundations and Donors Day, with free entry and limited to 25 participants. The visit highlights the role of donations in building the foundation's collections.

Afternoon 3 events
Let's Percu(r)ss: Workshop by Mais Cultura

15:00 Biblioteca Municipal de S. Domingos de Rana S. Domingos de Rana Cascais

Free Live music

Marking the International Day of Older Persons and World Music Day, the Library hosts a workshop showing how music can be everywhere, using the body, voice and everyday objects to create rhythm. Free participation, subject to registration, for people aged 55 and over.

The BB Side | Et Dieu... Créa La Femme

15:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

Screening in the Cinemateca's Lado BB cycle of 'Et Dieu... créa la femme', the 1956 film that made Brigitte Bardot a star. Tickets are 3,20€, with discounts for Cinemateca members, students, over-65s and other groups.

PEDRO FAZ INVITES JOHN-E

17:00 Village Underground Lisboa Alcântara Lisbon

DJ set

DJ session on Thursday 1 October from 17h to 23h, with Pedro Faz inviting John-E.

Evening 23 events
From Ovid and Goethe - Metamorphoses in the Gulbenkian Garden

18:00 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Avenidas Novas Lisbon

Literature

A guided tour through the Gulbenkian Garden exploring the surprising dialogue between botany, classical literature (Ovid) and the philosophy of nature (Goethe) on metamorphoses.

The BB Side | Le Parti Des Choses: Bardot/Godard + Le Mépris

19:00 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A double bill in the Cinemateca's Lado BB cycle: Jacques Rozier's short 'Le Parti des choses', following Brigitte Bardot and Jean-Luc Godard on the set of 'Le Mépris', followed by Godard's 1963 classic. Tickets are 3,20€, with discounts available.

Ajax

19:00 8 Marvila Marvila Lisbon

10€ Theatre

A theatrical adaptation of Sophocles' 'Ajax', one of his earliest tragedies, exploring the limits of power and serving as a response to totalitarian threats. The performance, premiering at TMJB, crosses the text with testimonies, narratives, and artistic interventions to create a sharp, human theater that looks us in the eye.

What I Want to See | Garbo Talks

19:30 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A screening of Garbo Talks at the Cinemateca as part of the What I Want to See series, with tickets at 3,20€ and discounts for students, seniors and other groups.

Paintings for a Continent

20:00 São Luiz Teatro Municipal Lisbon

6€ Live music

Concert with tickets between €6 and €15, with discounts for over 65s, São Luiz cardholders, unemployed people, people with disabilities and performing arts professionals.

DEIVE LEONARDO, THE AWAKENING | WORLD TOUR

20:30 Coliseu dos Recreios Santa Maria Maior Lisbon

30€ 6+ Live music

Religious gathering led by evangelist Deive Leonardo, coming to Lisbon as part of 'The Awakening' tour, with messages of faith, reflection and spiritual transformation.

Agora Dez - Charity Concert

21:00 Aula Magna Cidade Universitária Lisbon

Live music

Agora Dez takes the stage at the Aula Magna in Lisbon for a charity concert on 1 October 2026.

Ana Bacalhau with the Martim Sousa Tavares Orchestra - Lisbon

21:00 Universidade de Lisboa Lisbon

Live music

Ana Bacalhau performs with the Martim Sousa Tavares Orchestra at the Universidade de Lisboa on 1 October 2026, in a concert that pairs the singer's voice with the conductor's orchestral arrangements.

Lera Lynn

21:00 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

19,50€ 12+ Live music

Concert by Lera Lynn, an independent artist blending alt-Americana, indie rock and cinematic noir, known for her work on True Detective and her recent album 'Comic Book Cowboy'. No seating, arrive early.

MERCURY REV IN LISBON

21:00 República da Música Alvalade Lisbon

30€ Live music

American rock band Mercury Rev performs live in Lisbon.

SUPERSTAR

21:00 Teatro Armando Cortez Tires Cascais

M/12 Theatre

A theatre play about a superstar.

FREAKSHOW LABS | LISBOA

21:30 Auditório Roma Lisbon

12€ Theatre

An evening of theatre featuring a brief introduction and stand-up tests. General admission costs €12.

Paulo Branco | L'Enfant

21:45 Cinemateca Portuguesa Santo António Lisbon

3,2€ Cinema

A screening of L'Enfant at the Cinemateca as part of the series dedicated to producer Paulo Branco, with tickets at 3,20€ and discounts for students, seniors and other groups.

Exhibition Closing Party: Culture & Connection

22:00 Teja House Lisbon

Party

TEJÁ House, Sol Temple and Vagabundo Gallery close the gallery's first Lisbon edition with a night of art, drinks and deep, hypnotic sounds from Isis Sage, Oli Liu and Avi, running from 22:00 until 01:00 — or a little longer.

Joshua Idehen

22:00 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

17,30€ Todas as idades Live music

Concert by Joshua Idehen, British-Nigerian poet and musician known for his work with Sons of Kemet, presenting his spiritual project built with producer Saturday, Monday. Doors open at 9:30 PM, concert at 10 PM.

OctobeFest Pub Crawl in Lisbon

22:00 Local a anunciar Lisbon

18+ DJ set

A pub crawl through one of Lisbon's best nightlife neighbourhoods, with three venues, welcome shots, an hour of unlimited beer and sangria (or a 10€ upgrade to gin, vodka, rum and whiskey) and VIP club entry to finish the night.

Rice Jam - El Zaperoco

23:00 Arroz Estúdios Beato Lisbon

Other

Jam do Arroz, with El Zaperoco, is a jam session open to musicians and live music lovers.

BAILE: FOMO

23:30 Casa Capitão Beato Lisbon

Free 18+ DJ set

From midnight, Casa Capitão turns into BAILE, the every-Thursday plan, with tickets split into several phases and a limited number available per phase.

On October 1st, RIKTUS welcomes Germany's HARD BOCK DRAUF to Lisbon for a special collaboration joining three German and three Portuguese artists around hard, fast and uncompromising techno, with DeGuzman, Penelope (2), Anastasiya Ty and Kafox.

Exhibitions, runs & attractions 267 events

Un ballo in maschera

Live music 45€

Wednesday 28 April · 20:00

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Centro Cultural de Belém Belém · Lisbon

Verdi's opera about a king in love with his best friend's wife, a political conspiracy and a masked ball where all the threads of the plot converge; this new São Carlos production adds another chapter to Lisbon's long relationship with the work.

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A king in love with his best friend's wife; a conspirator who discovers the betrayal too late to act honourably; a fortune-teller whose prophecy no one wants to believe; and a masked ball where all the threads of the plot converge. Premiered at the Teatro Apollo in Rome on 17 February 1859, Un ballo in maschera is one of Verdi's most singular works. The story of its creation is as dramatic as the plot itself: commissioned by the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, it was blocked by the censors in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Napoleon III of France. Verdi refused the censors' corrections and eventually broke his contract with the Neapolitan institution. When it finally reached the stage, with the original Swedish setting transformed under Roman censorship into colonial Boston, the opera had survived a lawsuit and two years of obstacles. The libretto by Antonio Somma, inspired by Eugène Scribe, is based on a historical event: the murder of King Gustav III of Sweden at a masked ball in 1792. In Verdi's hands, a political conspiracy and a secret love become inextricable, as the friendship between the King and Renato, his adviser, collapses under the weight of a passion neither can control. The score moves between tragedy and lightness with remarkable ease, especially in the pages entrusted to Oscar, the King's page, whose music radiates the distinctly French lightness that Verdi absorbed from his experience on Parisian stages. Lisbon holds a special place in the history of this opera: on 15 April 1860, just over a year after the Rome premiere, the then Royal Theatre of São Carlos was the first opera house to stage Un ballo in maschera outside Italy, with Gaetano Fraschini, the tenor who had created the title role, repeating it in the Portuguese capital. Since then, the opera has returned to São Carlos several times. This new production adds another chapter to that long relationship.

Show original (Portuguese)

Um rei apaixonado pela mulher do seu melhor amigo; um conspirador que descobre a traição demasiado tarde para agir honradamente; uma vidente em cuja profecia ninguém quer acreditar; e um baile de máscaras onde convergem todos os fios da trama. Estreado no Teatro Apollo de Roma em 17 de fevereiro de 1859, Un ballo in maschera é uma das obras mais singulares de Verdi. A história da sua criação é tão dramática quanto o próprio enredo: encomendada pelo Teatro di San Carlo de Nápoles, acabou barrada pelo crivo da censura no rescaldo da tentativa de assassinato de Napoleão III de França. Verdi recusou as correções dos censores, acabando por romper o contrato com a instituição napolitana. Quando, finalmente, chegou ao palco , com o cenário original sueco transformado, sob censura romana, na Boston colonial , , a ópera sobrevivera a um processo judicial e a dois anos de obstáculos. O libreto de Antonio Somma, inspirado em Eugène Scribe, baseia-se num acontecimento histórico: o assassínio do rei Gustavo III da Suécia, num baile de máscaras, em 1792. Nas mãos de Verdi, uma conspiração política e um amor secreto tornam-se inextricáveis, quando a amizade entre o Rei e Renato, seu conselheiro, se desmorona sob o peso de uma paixão que nenhum dos dois consegue controlar. A partitura move-se entre a tragédia e a leveza com notável facilidade, sobretudo nas páginas confiadas a Oscar, o pajem do Rei, cuja música irradia a ligeireza distintivamente francesa que Verdi incorporou da sua experiência nos palcos parisienses. Lisboa ocupa um lugar especial na história desta ópera: a 15 de abril de 1860, pouco mais de um ano após a estreia em Roma, o então Real Teatro de São Carlos foi a primeira casa de ópera a levar Un ballo in maschera à cena fora de Itália, com Gaetano. Fraschini, o tenor que havia criado o papel do protagonista, a repeti-lo na capital portuguesa. De então para cá, a ópera regressou várias vezes ao São Carlos. Esta nova produção acrescenta outro capítulo a essa longa relação.

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